732 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 357

sembly of this State or under any ordinance of the Mayor or
City Council of Baltimore, by pecuniary fine only, not exceed-
ing one hundred dollars; to hear, try and determine the cases
of all persons brought before him charged with the violation of
laws relating to hawkers and peddlers, and to hear, try and
determine the cases of all persons brought before him charged
with the offense of indecent exposure; to hear, try and deter-
mine the cases of all persons brought before him for Sunday
gaming, Sunday work, Sunday sales or Sabbath-breaking; and
to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought
before him charged with being a vagrant or with being an ha-
bitually disorderly person (not insane). But it shall be the
duty of the said justice before proceeding to hear, try and de-
termine any of the charges aforesaid, to inform the party or
parties charged therewith of his or their respective rights to a
jury trial; and if a jury trial be prayed by the party or parties
charged, or if the state's attorney for said city shall before trial
for the alleged offense pray a jury trial on the part of the State,
the justice shall forthwith commit or hold the said party or
parties to bail for trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and endorse on the commitment or recognizance the fact of a
jury trial having been prayed. It is hereby expressly provided
that the said justice shall not have power to try and determine
any violation of the Public General Laws of this State relating
to licenses (except violations of laws relating to hawkers and
peddlers heretofore mentioned), and shall not have power to
try and determine any violation of Section 682 of this said
Article 4, but shall cause all such offenders against the Public
General or Local Laws to be committed or held to bail for trial
in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. Nothing herein con-
tained shall apply to or affect the jurisdiction conferred upon
Police Justices of Baltimore City by Section 140p of Chapter
207 of the Acts of Assembly of the year 1910, codified as Sec-
tion 157 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Public Civil
Laws of the year 1912, but the jurisdiction conferred by said
last mentioned section shall be the same as before the passage
of said Chapter 777 of the Acts of Assembly of the year 1912.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on and after June 1, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.